A decision to end funding for Planned Parenthood programs has led to a backlash against Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

UPDATE: The Susan. G. Komen Foundation has elected to continue funding for Planned Parenthood. Read more here.

A dispute between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has supporters on both sides accusing the other of playing politics with women's health.

Planned Parenthood started an emergency fund to pay for breast-cancer prevention programs for low-income women after the Komen foundation decide to end its grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates for those services.

Donors contributed $650,000 in 24 hours, nearly enough to replace the funds the breast cancer charity provided last year, Planned Parenthood said in the Washington Post.

Komen officials said they stopped the funding because a new policy bars support for organizations under investigation. A House committee is investigating whether Planned Parenthood improperly spent federal funds on abortions.

"The investigation they refer to is politically motivated and bogus," said Vicki Saporta, president and chief executive of the National Abortion Federation, a professional association of abortion practitioners, in a Los Angeles Times article. "To use that as an excuse to end a relationship that has saved thousands of women's lives is astounding."

Pro-life groups supported the move. The Alliance Defense Fund praised Komen “for seeing the contradiction between its lifesaving work and its relationship with an abortionist that has ended millions of lives."

Komen founder and CEO Nancy Brinker responded to the allegations in a YouTube video and the foundation issued a statement saying politics played no role in the new grant-making policy.

"Throughout our 30 year history, our priority has always been and will continue to be the women we serve," it said.